Noah Dyer is an independent candidate for Governor of Arizona. The independent petition requirement in Arizona is severe; it requires 37,890 signatures. The only other states that require more signatures in 2018 for a statewide independent are Georgia, Nebraska, and Texas. Dyer’s campaign web page includes a section soliciting individuals to become paid petitioners for him. He is paying 75 cents per signature.

Rocky De La Fuente has a federal lawsuit arguing that the number of signatures for a statewide independent is unconstitutional, because the state requires substantially fewer signatures for a new party. The new party petition this year is 23,041.

On February 13, the North Carolina legislature passed HB 90, which says that the State Board of Elections should be composed of nine members: four Democrats, four Republicans, and one member who is neither. Governor Roy Cooper, a Democrat, still hasn’t acted on the bill. The daily newspaper for Raleigh, the News & Observer, has endorsed the bill. See this editorial.

California is the only state that prints the occupation of candidates on ballots. The policy applies both to partisan and non-partisan elections. The law says a candidate’s occupational ballot listing is as of the day candidates filed. San Francisco is having a special Mayoral election on June 5, and filing has already closed.

On the day filing closed, London Breed was Mayor of San Francisco. However, afterwards, the Board of Supervisors replaced her with someone else. The city elections office is nevertheless listing London Breed as “Mayor/Supervisor” because that was her occupation on filing day. Another candidate for Mayor, Mark Leno, has sued the city elections office to force it to revise Breed’s ballot occupation listing. See this story.